The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.